Wednesday, June 08, 2011

John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar

The blog Philosophy Bites (podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite-sized topics...) has just posted (June 4) an interview with Georgetown law professor John Mikhail on Universal Moral Grammar. One of the questions treated was "Do children have an innate pre-disposition to make certain sorts of moral judgement?" Mikhail's new book, Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment, was published in May, 2011.
20 min. no transcript